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Wellness and Prevention for the Third Half of Life with Hans Parge

"May y'all live young, do good and prosper" - This is the slogan of Hans Parge with which he reminds us of the necessary mindset for getting older with every post on Facebook. In the conversation with Hans Parge held in The Wisdom Factory earlier this year we discuss with him the various health care systems and the importance of changing the approach to health and healing. "Functional Medicine" is a very promising new approach which sees humans from a holistic perspective and not merely like a body which needs to be repaired like a machine when it doesn't work well. See the timestamps below to find out what we were talking about in the video. 00:00 Introductions and suggestions for listening/watching 04:50 What has it all been leading to? [...]

By |2017-10-05T18:06:27+01:00October 5th, 2017|Integral Aging, Video posts|0 Comments

Age is a state of mind with Connie Corley

Connie Corley is the go-to person when it comes to questions about getting older. She is convinced that age is a state of mind and she is passionately working to create a better life for people who are facing the later years of their lives. We in The Wisdom Factory have interviewed her twice. In this post you find the second interview we had with her inside the CONSCIOUS AGEING series for which she has been an important inspiration. We are covering many topics, for instance at minute 16:10 The Senior Moment phrase, replace with Senior Momentum! 17:14 Internalized stereotypes of ageing and attitude 21:40 Feelings about “anti-ageing” concepts and vocabulary If you feel inspired, please watch the video here or on YouTube - PLEASE SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL! Connie has [...]

By |2017-10-05T16:23:09+01:00September 30th, 2017|Integral Aging, Video posts|0 Comments

New possibilities when getting older – Jon Freeman

Age is neither good nor bad Although it is a common behavior in our society it by no means makes any sense. If we allowed ourselves to live - at least for a certain percentage of our lives - from a rational perspective, it should be clear that we cannot avoid the only certainty we have in life: getting older and die. Wouldn't it be better to prepare for the future and explore what we can do and how we can live in older years? One thing is certain: when we ignore reality we ignore not only the uncomfortable aspects of it but also the gifts. Changing perspective would allow us to explore the gifts of our older years instead of keeping to stay stuck in complaints about what we are [...]

By |2017-10-03T09:12:45+01:00September 28th, 2017|Blog Posts, Integral Aging, Video posts|0 Comments

Yo, is This Ageist? – Ashton Applewhite in the Wisdom Factory

Ashton Applewhite Yo, is this AGEIST? Author and activist Ashton Applewhite is the author of  This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism. Ashton has been recognized by the New York Times, National Public Radio, and the American Society on Aging as an expert on ageism. She blogs at This Chair Rocks, has written for Harper’s, Playboy, and the New York Times, and is the voice of Yo, Is This Ageist? Ashton speaks widely, at venues that have ranged from universities and community centers to the United Nations. She has been named as a Fellow by the Knight Foundation, the New York Times, Yale Law School, and the Royal Society for the Arts. In 2016, Ashton joined Next Avenue’s annual list of 50 Influencers in Aging as their Influencer of the Year.  Her work is a call to wake up to the ageism in and around us, embrace [...]

By |2017-09-10T13:20:19+01:00September 10th, 2017|Video posts|0 Comments

How to keep the brain alive and make longevity easy

Can you do something for longevity? Singing together for performance There are many proven ways to keep our brains alive and to work towards longevity. For instance engaging in music, especially in singing, is a good way to enhance the connection between the two brain hemispheres. If you sing in a choir there is the additional benefit the social connection with the others and the flow experiences when you participate in an exhibition. Hands of an older person playing the piano Playing the piano is commonly known as one of the most challenging tasks for the brain, especially when played at first sight: you need to translate what you see in no time into your 10 fingers. Imagine an organ player who is using his feet, too, independently from [...]

By |2017-04-03T10:07:12+01:00February 13th, 2017|Blog Posts, collected articles|0 Comments

Ashton Applewhite – The Time is NOW

Ashton Applewhite holding her keynote speech at the UN Ashton Applewhite is an agent against discrimination for age. For many years she is dedicating herself to create an Anti-Ageism-Movement. She is a keynote speaker in many important places like the UN commission for Ageism (we talked about that before), and she also gave us the honor to open our series CONSCIOUS AGEING at The Wisdom Factory. Since the elections in the USA, the landscape has changed dramatically and minorities have all reasons to fear that their discrimination will not only not be alleviated, but reinforced by a president and a government who enjoys fascist ways of thinking and being. Trump in Hitler posture(Thanks to the artist who is unknown to me) As native German, I still feel the panic [...]

By |2017-04-03T10:07:12+01:00February 1st, 2017|Blog Posts, collected articles, Integral Aging|0 Comments

Sameness or difference – what is better for a good relationship?

When we get older we probably have had our experience with sameness in our relationships and also with differences. Maybe you have come to the conclusion about what is better, sameness or difference? Which is better? What do we want in a relationship? Sameness If you made a list of what you want in an intimate relationship you probably would name love mutual understanding sexual attraction harmony collaboration and probably other items for which we long and which we haven't experienced fully in our previous relationships.   In the Conscious Ageing series, we talked with Michaela Boehm who gave us some interesting insights into why we don't get what we want - as long as we want always everything at the same time. When we and our partner have a lot [...]

By |2017-04-03T10:07:12+01:00January 17th, 2017|Blog Posts, Integral Aging, Videos|0 Comments

How love increases and happiness enters life

Life is all about love - even if we don’t want to admit it. We desperately need the love from our caregivers in childhood and later we search love in our relationships. And all our life long we are trying to figure out how love increases and with that our happiness. Happiness enters our life when we FEEL happy with whatever happens in or around us! - That seems to be a contradiction in itself: how can you feel happy when unfortunate things occur, when you lose your job or a loved one? What is happiness? Sitting - a spiritual practice which can lead to equanimity Well, we are talking about 2 different ways happiness is understood. Often people think they will be happy when they have reached x, or [...]

By |2017-04-03T10:07:13+01:00December 21st, 2016|Blog Posts, Integral Aging, Videos|0 Comments

Ageing is a taboo topic – why?

AGEING is a taboo topic - probably because it is connected with DEATH - and everyone fears death and tries to avoid it. Well, we all know that we cannot avoid death, this is the only certainty we have in life, but we don't want to be reminded that our time on earth is limited. Collectively we live in fear of death and hope in magical thinking that it won't visit us if we don't speak about it - with the result that the FEAR increases into excessive levels. What if we knew that dying is a great experience? Love and light is expecting us and we will literally "come home"? There is a lot of evidence that our death will be an incredible experience. Below I will post some videos regarding [...]

By |2017-04-03T10:07:13+01:00December 15th, 2016|Blog Posts, Integral Aging, Videos|0 Comments

Where do you want to arrive in your life ?

What do you want in your life as a young person? What do we Desire from Life From early on we are asked - and we ask ourselves: where do you want to arrive in your life? As a teenager or young adult, it seems to be all about the profession and about love and creating a family. Later the focus shifts to being successful in our career, as parents or in whatever else we are doing. Then, very often between 40 and 50, there comes a moment of crisis, of re-orientation, of thinking over our goals and our values. This happens often in consequence of the children leaving home, the spouse getting oriented elsewhere or a burnout at work. Other scenarios are possible, like losing the job, encountering bankruptcy etc. They [...]

By |2017-04-03T10:07:13+01:00December 10th, 2016|Blog Posts, Integral Aging, Videos|0 Comments
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